ICT POLICIES & STRATEGIES IN FIVE COUNTRIES

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand has the world's highest access to telecommunications per capita, with the cost of accessing the Internet being almost as low as it is in the United States.Their country have been buying computers, signing up to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and going online at an internationally impressive rate. This country is concentrated to its ICT because they believe that this technology will bring them to the world's most richest country. Their principles includes:
* establishes direction for learning and assessment in New Zealand schools;
* fosters achievement and success for all students;
* provides for flexibility, enabling schools and teachers to design programmers which are appropriate to the learning needs of their students;
* encourages students to become independent and life-long learners;
* recognises the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi;
* reflects the multicultural nature of New Zealand society;
* relates learning to the wider world.

AUSTRALIA

The country have 5 key action towards the ICT:

People:
Improved learning outcomes for students, supported by educational leaders, teachers and administration staff with the skills and motivation to use ICTs effectively.
Infrastructure:
Access to an advanced ICT infrastructure that supports teaching and learning.
Content and Services:
Access to, and application of online resources and services that support continuous improvement in curricula, in classroom and distance learning and in school administration.
Supporting Policies:
Policies that support the integration of ICTs in schools.
Enabling Regulation:
A legal framework in Australia that supports rather than inhibits the use of new ICTs to enhance learning. They believe that this 5 key will be the answers to the ICT's in their country.

HONGKONG

In 1998, their country launch the “Information Technology for Learning in a New Era: Five-year Strategy – 1998/99 to 2002/03”. This 5 strategy sustaining the development of IT in their country. The strategy outlines Hong Kong's aims to harness the power of ICT to turn schools into dynamic and innovative learning institutions, where students can become more motivated, inquisitive, creative and independent lifelong learners. Their Government is intent on harnessing the full potential of information and communications technology (ICT) to benefit the community and enhance their country position as a leading digital city.

SINGAPORE

Singapore is, today, one of the world's premiere business cities, being consistently ranked as one the world most competitive nations. This is the evident from the fact that places second in Asia, behind the Japan, in the degree of diffusion and adoption. Singapore's economic structure has been transformed from one of the labour-surplus, manufacturing-intensive economy to a highly skilled. techonology-intensive one.

MALAYSIA

The country begun to use the ICT's during 1996, the Government has introduced various initiatives to facilitate the greater integration of ICT to improve capacities in every area of life, including the enhancement of education and training programmes. They started to fulfill their vision what they called "VISION 2020" Malaysia's long-term vision, calls for sustained, productivity-driven growth, possible only with a technologically literate, critically thinking workforce, prepared to participate fully in the global economy of the 21st century. To fulfill thier vision they begun to use the smart-school which enhance the student on how to use the ICT and on how to develop it. In 2010,they have now 2000+ of smart school which teaches their students about ICT.

http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/Metasurvey/MALAYSIA.PDF

http://www.jamus.name/research/id1.pdf

http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/communication/government/governmentpolicy.htm

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/new-zealand/